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"Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:07:03 -0700 (MST)
: > From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > "Coleman Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > : Just to let you know, there are still a significant number of amd64
: > : single-core laptops that are still sold these days.
: >
: > I have one myself. But I'm considering running FreeBSD/i386 on it
: > because of all the issues I've had getting a working OpenOffice on it.
: >
: > Warner
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:
: The new release of OOo is SUPPOSED to be 64-bit clean. I have no idea
: when 2.1 will be ported to FreeBSD, but I hope it will be soon.
:
: OTOH, I see little reason to run amd64 on most systems which don't have
: large memories or some other specific reason to run it. The binaries are
: larger and generally performance changes are minimal.
Last time I tried to build, I tripped over the jdk needing java
needing mozilla and mozilla was marked as not buildable due to
security issues.
Warner
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